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The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.
Molly Bloom
Somewhat
Had
Were
Motivations
Being
Dysfunctional
Successful
I'm such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and character motivations. And the way you evaluate functions is a really interesting way to look at stories and the way you act. I really believe it.
Morgan Saylor
Character
You
Believe
Think
Way
Between
Look
Motivations
Stories
Dork
Story
Interesting
Interesting Way
Really
Act
Derivatives
Evaluate
Functions
Found
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
History
People
Other
Driven
Never
Had
Columbus
Checks
Wrote
Himself
Were
Been
Motivations
Discoverer
The History Of
Exploration
Who
The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.
Nick Harkaway
Government
Anger
Law
Sometimes
Challenge
Rude
National
Complaints
Our
Punish
Those
Would
More
Shallow
Tender
Rituals
Idea
Protect
Motivations
Quite
Often
Sensibilities
Us
Should
Certainties
Who
Serious
Deeper
Alarm
From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.
Nick Petrie
Character
Conflict
Simple
Three
Single
Complex
At Least One
Characters
Purely
Direct
More
Another
Least
Motivation
Motivations
Craft
Which
While
Standpoint
Two
As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people's behaviour.
Paul Polman
Day
Every Day
Lie
People
Every
Consumer
Drivers
Consumers
Goods
Understands
Motivations
Norms
Behaviour
Behind
Create
Billions
Company
Serving
One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.
Peter Agre
Work
You
Science
Become
Way
Something
Study
Red
Go
Malaria
Discover
Motivations
Blood
Goes
Cells
Want
Your
Specialist
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
Reggie Watts
You
Science
World
Key
Amazing
Understanding
Think
Our
Slightly
Our World
Be Careful
Immortality
About
Motivations
Discovering
Behind
Achieving
Fantastic
Things
Necessarily
Careful
When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.
Richard Attias
Age
Opportunity
Before
Young
Kids
Critical
Window
Ten
Habits
Motivations
Influenced
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
Robert J. Sawyer
People
Own
Just Be
Complex
Point
Point Of View
Writers
Real
Motivations
Contradictory
Real People
Just
View
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
Ron Silver
You
People
Sometimes
Language
Think
Indicate
About
Makes
Motivations
Lot
Irrational
Behavioral
Going
Intentions
Really
Body
Body Language
Your
Awful
Awful Lot
Things
Motivations are too tangled and complex.
Russell Banks
Too
Complex
Tangled
Motivations
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor
Balance
Try
Action
Those
Out
Concept
Biases
Built
Motivations
Testing
Cultural
Affirmative
Effects
Affirmative Action
The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.
Will Wright
Needs
Me
Age
Few
Down
Idea
Concerns
Clicks
Smoothly
Motivations
Different
Thing
Second
We all have our motivations in life and for me, it's my kids. They push me every day and keep me going. It gives me that extra motivation that I need.
Tristan Thompson
Life
Day
Me
Every Day
Every
Extra
Our
Kids
Gives
Push
Motivation
Motivations
Going
Keep
Need
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